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property

/ˈpɹɒp.ə.ti/ UK
/ˈpɹɑ.pɚ.ti/ US, dialectal
[ˈpɹɑ.pɚ.ɾi] US, dialectal
/ˈpɹɒp.ɚ.ti/ Canada, dialectal
[ˈpɹɒp.ɚ.ɾi] Canada, dialectal
/ˈpɹɔp.ə.ti/ Australia
[ˈpɹɔp.ə.ɾi] Australia
/ˈpɹɒp.ə.ti/ New Zealand
[ˈpɹɔ̟p.ə.ɾi] New Zealand
/ˈpɾɔpəɾte/ Scotland
/-tɪ/ Scotland
/-ti/ Scotland

Where it comes from

From Middle English propertee, properte, propirte, proprete, borrowed from Anglo-Norman and Old French propreté, proprieté (“propriety, fitness, property”), from Latin proprietās (“a peculiarity, one's peculiar nature or quality, right or fact of possession, property”), from proprius (“special, particular, one's own”). Equivalent to proper + -ty. Doublet of propriety.

noun properties · propretie

countable, uncountable Something that is owned. Leave those books alone! They are my property.
countable, uncountable A piece of real estate, such as a parcel of land. There is a large house on the property.
UK, countable, uncountable Real estate; the business of selling houses. He works in property as a housing consultant.
countable, uncountable The exclusive right of possessing, enjoying and disposing of a thing.
countable, uncountable An attribute or abstract quality associated with an individual, object or concept. Charm is his most endearing property.
countable, uncountable An attribute or abstract quality which is characteristic of a class of objects. Matter can have many properties, including color, mass and density.
countable, uncountable An editable or read-only parameter associated with an application, component or class; especially (object-oriented programming) one that encapsulates an underlying variable. You need to set the debugging property to "verbose".
countable, plural normally, uncountable A prop, an object used in a dramatic production. Costumes and scenery are distinguished from property properly speaking.
US, countable, uncountable A script, book, screenplay, or the like that is on the market or has been bought for commercial production as a stage play, movie, or the like.
US, broadly, countable, rare, uncountable A produced stage play, movie, or the like. Is the property in which you are playing currently on Broadway – is it a musical?
countable, obsolete, uncountable Propriety; correctness. it is well knowne that I have the property to keepe counsaile

verb properties · propertying · propertied · propretie

obsolete To invest with properties, or qualities. His voyce was propertied As all the tuned Spheres, and that to Friends
obsolete To make a property of; to appropriate. Your grace shall pardon me, I will not back: I am too high-born to be propertied, To be a secondary at control, Or useful serving-man and instrument, To any sovereign state throughout the world.

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